Word: miniskirt
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...write for the lady in Larchmont who is having her breakfast." One reason the coverage was subdued was the absence of any explosive new trends. There was nothing that remotely approached the magnitude of Dior's 1947 "new look" (long, full skirts with tiny waists) or the miniskirt in 1965 or Saint Laurent's 1976 peasant look. Indeed, the dragons were hedging their assessments as skillfully as any veteran political reporter. Looking forward to the London, Paris and New York showings, Bernadine Morris wrote in the Times: "By the end of next month it will be clear whether...
...French and their insidious "fashions" [Oct. 29]! First I hear the miniskirt is making a comeback. "Well," I console myself, "you'll just have to live in pants until the phase passes." Then I see your story on the new baggy pants...
...late Sixties saw a burst of cultural symbolism--each product of which was greeted with either glee or derision. Every milieu made its own contribution. The fashion industry bestowed the miniskirt, musicians drummed up acid rock, drugs brought their own cults etc. etc. In retrospect, these symbols elicit smiles--even laughs--of recognition from those who participated in, and watched their rises to popularity, and subsequent plummets to oblivion. Still, they deserve sober contemplation. The apolitical, self-absorbed demeanor of many members of the present generation decrees that these social signposts be regarded as fads. Such a viewpoint belittles...
...story was written by Senior Writer Michael Demarest and edited by Leon Jaroff. Demarest's experience with fashion predates the American look and the miniskirt. In fact, it goes back to his boyhood days in London when his mother, he says, "would occasionally drag me to fittings at her dressmaker's." In Demarest's recollection, "these were marvelous occasions. I knew nothing about fashion and cared less, but the vision of half-clad ladies gliding mysteriously to and fro was something to treasure during the long months of all-male boarding schools...
Israelis or visitors who are unwise enough to drive their cars through the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim section of Jerusalem on the Sabbath often encounter a hail of stones. A teen-age girl who naively walks through the same district in a miniskirt may find herself angrily chased by Orthodox youths shouting "Zonah! Zonah!" ("Whore! Whore!"). Many pathologists in Israeli hospitals receive death threats from Orthodox fanatics for performing autopsies, which according to Orthodoxy are a desecration of the dead. Hospitals in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv closed down briefly in protest against police failure to curb the threats...